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Guard the borders blogburst (late)

January 30, 2006 Guard the Borders Blogburst

By Heidi

This first month of 2006 has seen a spate of unprecedented media attention to on-going border breaches such as drug smuggling tunnels and Mexican Army incursions. Deceitful Mexican government officials have disavowed any knowledge of such breaches, instead presenting laughable theories of “American soldiers disguised as Mexicans”. Even our own Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, has covered for the Mexicans by dismissing border incursion as mere navigational “mistakes”. (He’s failed to comment on the gunfire from said “lost” Mexican soldiers.)

No one is fooled. Our border agents continue to risk their lives confronting heavily armed Mexican soldiers and smuggling gangs, while our own American citizens living on the border continue to petition our government for security - to no avail. Two American states, Arizona and New Mexico, have declared a state of emergency in their states, as the financial and societal obligation of caring for illegal immigrants crushes their economy and resources.

In four states, the two above plus Texas and California, the new majority is the Hispanic, though mostly illegal. Such a disparity between law-abiding, tax-paying American citizens has caused the unconscionable situation to develop that the minority now pays for the services and support of the majority.

In the meantime, trillions of American dollars flow out of our economy and into Mexico’s in the form of tax-free cash remittances from illegal labor. These cash disbursements are the largest form of income for the country of Mexico:

Remittances “are our biggest source of foreign income, bigger than oil, tourism or foreign investment,” Fox told reporters after a meeting with Mexican-American businessmen.

“The 20 million Mexicans in the United States generate a gross product that is slightly higher than the $600 billion generated by Mexicans in Mexico,” Fox said, adding that his country has the ninth-largest economy in the world.

“If we could add up the two products, Mexico would be the third or fourth economy in the world,” he said.

Three years later, the number of illegal Mexicans in America is higher than ever, their impact on U.S. social services even more draining, and the free income is flowing ever-faster into Mexico’s coffers. Think of it, their largest source of income costs them nothing in terms of infrastructure, research and development, education, and social services! They export their poorest, neediest citizens (at no cost to themselves) and sit back to wait for the free income to flow. No wonder they feel the need to ease their citizens’ illegal entry into America by providing handbooks and maps - it has a direct impact on their economy! What other income-producing activity could they undergo that would require no construction, no training, no law enforcement, and no responsibilities whatsoever to their citizens? Why would they want to curb a free and very lucrative income? The illegality of it bears no consequences or costs, so the Mexican government has no incentive to fix a system that works wonder for them!

I do not know how much longer we can afford to single-handedly support an entire nation through second-hand disbursements. The trillions of American dollars that boost Mexico’s economy are trillions of dollars not strengthening our own. Possibly even more important, the cultural impact of the burgeoning class of illegals is superseding American traditions and values and having a severe impact on our elections and government.

Our country was founded upon the premise “of the People, by the People, for the People” - and those People are constitutionally meant to be AMERICANS. Yet, foreign interest lobbies are have an ever-increasing detrimental effect on our local, state, and federal government as non-citizens are accorded most of the rights and privileges of American citizenship and garner actual governmental representation. This corruption of the intent of our Constitution has been allowed through the steady erosion of our national sovereignty.

Today, there are an estimated 23 million Mexicans working and living in America, according to Vicente Fox, who claims he is the leader of 123 million citizens: 100 million in Mexico and 23 million in America. Is it any wonder that he and like-minded special interest lobbies feel the RIGHT to demand more and more from our acquiescent government? Americans watch incredulously as they get most of what they demand, at our expense. To our shame, our nation’s government has abdicated our rule of law concerning national sovereignty and national security.

We now have a large foreign presence within our borders that is NOT American, has no intention of ever becoming American, has no regard for American law, nor loyalty to America. This is akin to hosting a nation within a nation - and worse, one that is loyal to a foreign power.

Last week, in a related article, I summarized our current scenario as such:

Let’s recap: we’ve got your basic violent criminals (mafia, drug smugglers, rapists, killers, etc) crossing UNDER our border with impunity…we’ve got heavily armed Mexican military blatantly crossing OVER our border to protect such criminals…firing on American Border Patrol agents to collect $200,000 bounties…plus, we’ve got ongoing sightings of enemy soldiers from other nations, possibly China or North Korea, crossing our border…also firing at our Border Patrol agents…we’ve got Muslim terrorists infiltrating easily and regularly from Mexico…we’ve got Muslim terrorists that have already successfully smuggled in nukes from Mexico…we’ve got American citizens living armed in a border zone that has become lawless…though we are at war, our borders are undefended and breached on a regular basis… our sovereignty as a nation is defiled…and WE’VE GOT AN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT THAT KNOWS ALL OF THE ABOVE AND HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!!

Our government today has monumentally failed in its most foundational duties to our lawful citizenry, as guaranteed by our Constitution. There is no doubt in my mind that our conflicted and disloyal elected “leaders” politicians desperately need the following reminder, from President Theodore Roosevelt:

“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all.

We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

–Theodore Roosevelt 1907

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This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It was started by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we’re going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration facing our country, join our blogburst! Just send an email with your blog name and url to euphoricrealitynet at gmail dot com.

Blogs already on board:

January 31st, 2006 Posted by John Bambenek | Uncategorized | one comment

Letter for the College Dems

You know, this letter actually made me regret taking out one of the original punch lines in the article… I was going to make reference to this campus’ College Dem chapter as the “Donkey Punch” chapter. Last semester they wore shirts that said “Donkey Punching our way to victory”. If you don’t know what a Donkey Punch is, look it up, it isn’t good. The College Repubs had a field day in the paper and on campus with it. But in short, I figured not to include it because I’d be sinking to their level. I still think that was the best idea, despite their flailing letter to accuse me of misinformation for not presenting their spin. How exactly is a pension system made stronger by not funding it again? Dare we talk about Rod wh is under federal investigation (probably several)?

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If you want to talk about indiscretions, we should talk about your clubs fetish with deviant sexual assault by glorfying donkey punches…

And the Republican party is not “mine”, I don’t identify them. There is no misinformation in my article, you just take pause with me not buying into the DNC party juice. If you want to talk about extortion, you do know Rod is on Fitzgerald’s hitlist after he wraps up the Plame Non-Crime prosecution, don’t you?

January 30th, 2006 Posted by John Bambenek | DailyIllini, Illinois, Politics | no comments

To filibuster or not to filibuster, that is the question

Sen. Kerry, Kennedy, and Clinton appear to be on board with a filibuster, and I’m all for it. I think the should filibuster it. I think when the vote comes up a few hours before the State of the Union, they should let the filibuster begin and let it bump the State of the Union address. Then I think the Republicans should break it the old fashioned way by waiting for whoever does it to need to go to the bathroom. It’s time to defeat this sword hanging over the Senate floor. Let them filibuster and then break the filibuster. The humiliation and utter defeat will by the final nail in the coffin of this dying and irrelevant group of children called the Democratic Party.

January 28th, 2006 Posted by John Bambenek | Law / Legal Issues, National, Politics | one comment

Judicial Legislation: The Destructive Power of Injunctions (Stop the ACLU post)

The judiciary has been characterized as what should be the weakest branch of government and for good cause. When a judge pronounces broad and sweeping judgments about what is or is not a “right” it bypasses democracy and establishes juristocracy. Such governments cannot be considered free.

An enormous amount of trust is placed in judges. This can be seen in the Alito confirmation that is feared to “tilt the country to the right”. This language largely means that the Democrats are afraid that Alito is not going to vote the Democrat party line in court cases. But that’s not the real issue. Why does a judge have the power to tilt the country to the right or the left? What happened to the legislature being able to write laws and courts applying them?

The problem with courts setting the laws largely revolves around how cases are decided. For each case there are two and generally only two sides. In cases involving civil rights and such you have the party who feels they have been harmed and you have the government. The judgment of the court based upon the statements of the single individual (or group) harmed and the statements of the judge can have an effect on the entirety of the population without any contribution or participation on their part. This is largely why the opinion that lawyers don’t “write the law” is largely irresponsible as it tries to dissolve any argument that lawyers might have some moral responsibility.

Take Roe v Wade which had on one side Norma McCorvey and on the other side the state of Texas. The Supreme Court created abortion on demand as the law of the land based on the arguments of those parties. Amicus briefs are fine, but they don’t rise to the same level as courtroom participation. Not only did no other interested parties get to participate, a national law was created without as much as a vote of the American people.

Lobbyists and special interests may be a dirty thing in the legislature, but at least for each issue there tends to be at least two groups that oppose each other vying for influence. In a courtroom, there is no one to speak for the desires of the varied opinions of the hundreds of millions of Americans who may be effected by a judicial injunction telling the government what laws they can pass, what laws they cannot pass, what they must set their tax rate at, what they must fund projects with, and a wide variety of issues that, until recently, were seen as part of the political process, not the judicial process.

Constitutional law has largely become a joke. It can no longer be considered that the practical exercise of constitutional law is based on the Constitution. When the Constitution was signed, representatives of the people were there representing their constituents. When a judge signs an injunction that significantly modifies or changes the agreement that was made, who does he represent? He wasn’t voted into office by anyone. He doesn’t represent anyone. He simply makes the laws, and the unbridled power allows for rampant misinterpretations of the law and constitution.

If the left is afraid of Alito as a Supreme Court justice it is because they have created a system that gives judges far too much power. If gay marriage should be law of the land, there is a process to do it. When people desired desegregation, they passed laws and constitutional amendments. Running into court to impose radically new social and legal norms is the refuge of those who wish to impose tyranny.

Lastly, some would argue there wouldn’t be a Brown v Board of Education without an activist court. Activist courts may sometimes get things right and do what is best for society. But for every Brown v Board there is a Dred Scott. And when they get it wrong, you can’t just vote the bums out.

See Stop the ACLU for the latest anti-ACLU efforts.

January 26th, 2006 Posted by John Bambenek | Law / Legal Issues, National, Politics, StoptheACLU | no comments

“End of the World Comes: Minorities and Women Hardest Hit”

It’s really hard to take things like this seriously. Only minorities can expect things like Hurricane Katrina to happen again? What happened to the white people that died in disproportionately high numbers in New Orleans?

January 24th, 2006 Posted by John Bambenek | Humor, Satire | no comments

Mexico Invades the United States

Just after it has been released that there has been over 200 unauthorized border crossings unto US soil by the Mexican military, it appears that people dressed as Mexican military provided armed cover for drug dealers fleeing Texas into Mexico. Mounted machine guns were pointed at law enforcement apparently by the Mexican military inside the borders of the United States.

Some will dismiss this as meaningless posturing despite the fact that if the US military every crossed a border in an unauthorized fashion they’d scream bloody murder. Some may dismiss this as another attack on immigration, despite the fact that no immigrants were involved. In this case, suspected drug dealers fleeing with over a half-ton of drugs were trying to escape Texas law enforcement inside the Texas border, and they were provided armed cover by what appears to be the Mexican military. Some may say it just appears they were dressed like that, and it remains to be seen exactly who those people were, but if there are people running around in military uniforms using military-grade weaponry, Mexico ought to be doing something about it. Especially if they make a habit of causing international incidents on American soil.

For too long the border has gone underprotected. This isn’t about immigration, per se. The United States should significantly loosen the restrictions on those who wish to come here to work and have a better life. However, that has largely been lost in the debate where few people understand that there is even a legal way to immigrate and equate those who illegally enter the country with those who follow the proper process. The political cowardice of those in office to enforce the laws related to the border have led not only to rampant illegal immigration but outright mockery of the law. Mexico provides guides for people wishing to enter the US illegally and then the Mexican government demands that Social Security checks be sent to Mexico.

There is nothing wrong with someone trying to get to the US for a better life for themselves and their children and the fact that people still come here in droves speaks volumes about the strength and vitality of the American economy. However, the de facto open borders policy has lead to military incursions, open drug trade, and even easy terrorist access into the country. There are those who say we can’t win the drug war. They have a point when a foreign military can invade the United States and provide cover for drug dealers while the White House remains silent.

January 24th, 2006 Posted by John Bambenek | Immigration, International, Military / War, National, Politics | 4 comments

Campus Survey on Political and Religious Discrimination

I’ve created a survey trying to gauge any campus religious or political discrimination. It’ll be interesting to see the results. When I’m done I hope to have something to present to the BOT on it. (Sorry, only University of Illinois people can participate).

January 23rd, 2006 Posted by John Bambenek | University of Illinois | no comments